Distribution Packages

What?

odt2tex is a simple command line tool that converts ODT
(Libre/OpenOffice text documents) to LaTeX .tex input files. It is released
under the MIT license and written in plain
C depending only on two further libraries:

Example of a very simple document conversion (click image for lager version):

Office Source Document

Converted Document

A very simple test proof-of-concept document:

Math equations are written to a IEEEeqnarray:

How?

odt2tex opens the ZIP file to access the contents.xml
feeding that to the expat XML parser. All embedded objects like
math or pictures are extracted first. The output is a
main.tex file that can be processed by
pdflatex to obtain a PDF file.

Where?

Development takes place right here on chronowerks. If you are interested
in contributing drop me a mail.